Midbreak IOTM

Just another Midbreak.

Hello again! In this Midbreak I'm going to review 2 books I recently read,
and 1 TV series I recently watched. The two books are Spy Society and
The Future of Us, I know, I know, not exactly heartwarming classics like
Pride & Prejudice, or literary amazement like The Fault in our Stars, but
lets talk about books the average bored teen would read. Don't get me wrong,
I love John Green and have Jane Austen's books filling my bookcase, but
I'd like to talk about books that DON'T bring you to tears-John Green- or
AREN'T a little more difficult to comprehend-Jane Austen-.

SPY SOCIETY IS an excellent Also Known As novel, featuring a girl named
Margaret "Maggie" Silver, her two spy parents who work for a top secret corporation
called the Collective, her-more often drunk than sober-best friend Scarlet "Roux", her
"assignment"-bad boy- Jesse Oliver, and her family's close-world class forger-friend, Angelo.
 Maggie is assigned to get close to Jesse Oliver and stop his dad from printing a
secret article that would reveal the Collective and their agents, including Maggie and her
parents, and while Collective's future relies on Maggie and her succession with the mission,
she's finding it hard to keep herself from liking Jesse, especially when he asks out and makes
out with her. On their date-which Maggie was trying and failing to convince herself that it was
for the sake of more information-Maggie brings Jesse to Gramercy Park and breaks in with her
paperclip (did I mention she's a whiz with safes and locks?) Upon hearing that, her parents go haywire
and soon after, Maggie is told of a dark secret in her past, including a spy called Oscar Young, who
tried to kidnap her when she was four years old, in hopes of keeping her lock picking, safe opening,skills
to himself. Apparently, when Collective agent Colton Hooper was told of this, he blamed himself for
bringing Oscar into the agency and assigned their family's safety to himself. Oscar's body washed up on
the beach a few days after. And while Angelo tries to reassure her that everything is fine, Maggie begins
to suspect something darker hidden within, and with Angelo sent away on a mission, Maggie has no
one to talk to and turns to Roux for advice. She confronts Roux and Jesse with the truth, and although
things are a little difficult at first, they both eventually come around and try to help her make sense of
what's going on. Eventually, the unexpected trio figure out that Colton is behind all of this - the mishaps in
Luxembourg, missing blueprints, empty safes, her attempted kidnapping, Oscar's death and Angelo's sudden mission. Maggie sends Angelo an emergency coded message telling him to get out of the mission, and the three figure out that Colton must have hired Oscar to kidnap Maggie, and when he failed, he killed him.
Shortly after, Maggie puts two and two together and realizes that Colton is behind the article about to be printed, and that he's staying in Oscars old apartment, 36 Gramercy Park, which explains her parent's freak out over her bringing Jesse to Gramercy Park the night of their date. The trio sneak into Colton's apartment,
Maggie picks his safe, grabs the dossiers with info on all of Collective's spies, and the three run right into
Colton's arms. Colton grabs Roux and she screams and breaks his nose. The three run through the streets, while Maggie makes an emergency phone call to Angelo, and he picks them up in his helicopter. A few
days later, Colton was shot and Maggie gets to stay in New York with her best friend and boyfriend.
RATING: 4/5 stars